Mark Zelden wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:20:01 -0400, Mark Jacobs <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> Bob Shannon wrote: >> >>>> Does this mean that those of us who bought z9s in the past two years are >>>> already obsolete? >>>> >>>> >>> Only if you want to run z/VM 6.1 and higher. >>> >>> Bob Shannon >>> Rocket Software >>> >>> >>> >> It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find out that IBM is already >> planning for zOS V2 that will require the new ALS. >> >> > > A new ALS requirement doesn't mean the OS has to be re-versioned. > That decision is a marketing one, not technical. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden > Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead > Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO > mailto:[email protected] > z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html > > > I agree, but the point I was trying to make was that we can expect some future level of zOS to require the new ALS. It's happened before and it will happen again.
-- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL ---- Delenn, I have been working up a good mad all day and I am NOT about to let you ruin it by agreeing with me! Captain John Sheridan - Babylon 5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
